#untitled project: virgin!reader

[sweatyracoon]

Seungmin, My Beloved

Seungmin Masterlist °° MDNI. Divider by @cafekitsune

Fluff <🩷> Angst <❤️‍🩹> Smut <🤎> Drabble <📌>

VOCALRACHA with Piercings! 📌 🤎

SKZ when your period leaks through 📌 🩷

Perv Head-cannons! 🤎 📌

SKZ and your anxious tics 📌 🩷

SKZ and their favorite part of you 📌 🤎

SKZ with a Goth Partner 📌🩷

Seungchest Supremacy 🤎 🩷- Seungmin was shy with you, rarely showing skin despite being in a relationship. Now he wears a tank top, and you must thank him. MDNI

Hair Extensions 🩷 📌 - Seungmin comes home from a photo shoot still sporting his Adora hair extensions.

Unlikely Scene 🤎 - Ghost face Seungmin and Lee Know with unsuspecting reader. MDNI

Mine 🤎 📌 - The fans were making you jealous, so you decided to leave a few marks to send a message. MDNI

Lollipop 🤎 🩷 📌 - Your friend was over at your house relaxing. But the noise of his lollipop bothered you. You decided to take it from him. MDNI

Kiss Cam 🩷📌 - You and the cute guy next to you at the hockey game end up on the kiss cam.

Put on a Show 🤎 🩷 It's your friends birthday, and she wants to see men dance in barely any clothes. You decide to go, not planning on enjoying it. However, one in particular makes you feel things you never had before. MDNI

After Party 🤎 📌 - Your friend, Seungmin, got worked up during his performance for Red Lights, not realizing he liked the feeling of a collar. You decide to help him out. MDNI

Untitled (requested)🩷📌 - Reader had a huge crush on Seungmin, and when Chan devises a plan to where they spend the night together alone, confessions are made.

Series

Touch me up 🩷📌 - As a makeup artist for JYP, you get a lot of action with the idols. One in particular however catches your eye.

Poor Seungmin 🩷🤎 ❤️‍🩹

Poor Seungmin Part Two 🩷 🤎

Poor Seungmin part Three 🩷🤎

Poor Seungmin part Four 🩷🤎

- Seungmin is a featureless hybrid. He didn't know he was capable of going into a rut, but he was wrong. When his members realize what he's going through, they all decide to help him out. MDNI

Pictures of your Cute Bestfriend! Seungmin 📌

Pictures of your Hot boyfriend! Seungmin 📌

Seungmins Smile📌

Member x Member

Loser Boy 🤎 📌 - Seungmin was the college nerd, but unbeknownst to him, the popular biker, Lee Know, had an interest in him. When they are paired for a project, things get a little freaky at the dorm. MDNI

Curious Hearts 🤎 🩷 - Seungmin found out that Hyunjin was a virgin, and that he also wanted Seungmin to take it. MDNI

[gummygowon]

WIP CHALLANGE -> TAG GAME

rules : post the name of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

tagged by : @thelargefrye

tagging: @i-luvsang @kpdlvr2 + no pressure to do this! this lowk took ages so i understand if y'all wanna skip this

note: i actually have so many drafts this took so long omfg someone pls ask about any one of them osndlajsdlkfadf

starting from my latest drafts!

✰ bow down | jeong yunho

-> medieval au, fluff, smut, angst, childhood best friends to lovers (???), princess/queen!y/n x knight/commander!yunho

✰ gotcha | jeong yunho

-> idol au, smut, established relationship,

✰ untitled #1 | kang yeosang

-> university au, fluff, friends (ish) to lovers, tutor!yeosang x stressed out!reader lmfao

✰ dino doodles | kang yeosang

-> university au, fluff, strangers to lovers, meet cute

✰ untitled #2 | choi san

-> non-idol au, established relationship, smut

✰ right now? | kim hongjoong

-> idol au, dad!hongjoong x pregnant!reader, fluff, slight crack ✰ untitled #3 | choi san

-> set in the ateez universe (based off bouncy mv), smut, boxer!san x afab reader, established relationship

✰ rocky | kang yeosang

-> boxer au, angst, smut, friends with benefits to ?, boxer!yeosang x reader

✰ boo! | jung wooyoung

-> paranormal au, slight crack/fluff, smut, ghost!wooyoung x college student!reader

✰ monday | jeong yunho

-> idol au, fluff, maybe smut? (i forgot where i was going with this), established relationship

✰ 9:08pm | park seonghwa

-> non-idol au, fluff, established relationship

✰ now you see me | jeong yunho

-> non-idol au, pwp, smut, pervneighbor!yunho x reader

✰ ateez during finals week!

-> university au, fluff and crack

✰ they're playing basketball? | jeong jaehyun

-> university au, fluff, crack, campus crush!jaehyun x reader, jaehyun might be a frat boy idk

✰ surprise? | choi yeonjun

-> non-idol au, fluff, slight crack, established relationship

✰ c u girl | kang yeosang

-> university au, meet cute, fluff, skater!yeosang x homesick!reader, strangers to lovers

✰ side quests | choi san

-> mafia/spy au?, angst, slight fluff, smut?, agent!san x agent!reader

✰ group projects | jung wooyoung

-> university au, smut, pwp, popular!wooyoung x virgin!reader

✰ daily trips to barnes and nobles | song mingi

-> non-idol au, meet cute, slight angst, fluff, kind of single dad!mingi x bookstore keeper!reader, strangers to lovers

✰ chasing butterflies | kang yeosang

-> non-idol au, childhood best friend to lovers, angst, fluff

note: i am getting tired of typing this all out but i'm giving y'all only titles now lskjlasjdlfad

✰ 2:07am | choi jongho ✰ iced americano | choi jongho ✰ don't stop | kim hongjoong ✰ everything is better in paris | park seonghwa ✰ racer san | choi san (they will be a better title i swear) ✰ spider-man no way home | jeon jungkook ✰ trick or treat? | jeong yunho ✰ untitled #4 | choi san ✰ popsicle buddies | park seonghwa ✰ 5:46pm | jung wooyoung ✰ surprise! ✰ snow day | jeong yunho ✰ stargazing | jeong yunho ✰ cafe | tooru oikawa -> omg do any of you remember my anime era lolz

[littledrummeraussie]

This one's kinda cute and somewhat deep though, so if you'd skip it's ok.

talking about the relationship (how I feel with you, How I feel w/ this relationship)

(I had this concept saved just for fun, which is basically Ashton and virgin!reader getting together after long years of friendship, but I'm still unsure if I ever would write it. But I do have a scene which goes well with this:)

"I really don't know why we haven't done this before," Ashton's words were quiet now as he slowly moved the hammock back and forth with his foot. "I mean... we've known each other for years. You would think at least once we would have made out or something."

"I guess the timing just wasn't right," you shrugged a little, curling into his side, his arm wrapping around your waist. "We were both in different relationships. I think we just didn't think about each other like that. Like-- something more."

"It did actually cross my mind. You and me. But you seemed content in your relationship with Ben, and I didn't want to, y'know."

"It wasn't all that perfect," your finger traced patterns over the back of Ashton's hand as you talked. "That's why we didn't last longer than that."

"But that gave me the chance to finally ask you out, and what a surprise!? We are now here, together," Ashton's smile was bright, eyes sparkling even in the fading lights. "You know, maybe it's the hormones talking, but I have a good feeling about us. I think we will last for a long time."

"Because we were friends before being anything else?" you quirked an eyebrow, making him laugh a bit as he kissed the top of your hair.

"Maybe that. Or because our zodiac signes sync up or whatever other bullshit. I don't know. I just know that I love this feeling when I'm with you. It feels really special, in a different way. Not like my other relationships."

"I wanna tell you something..." your eyes searched him, uncertainity in your voice. "It's... it's something I want you to know about me before we dive deeper. I know I can trust you, if not because of our relationship, then because you are my friend."

"You can tell me anything, of course," now you had his full attention, not like he didn't hang onto every word you said in the past couple of days.

"My relationship with Ben ended because we-- we couldn't move forward in it. Together. Because I wasn't always comfortable with him, not like with you. And... that created walls between us. And uhm... we never... so I'm--"

"Y/N?" Ashton blinked at you with big eyes, until a sigh left your lips and you let it all out.

"I've never had sex with Ben. I'm still a virgin."

......

[And technically the fic goes into Ashton helping her exploring whatever she is comfortable with and whatever she likes. Not teaching(!), just helping her in her own journey, at her own pace etc.]

[faerybin]

「Lee Minho」 ♤

» So here you'll find all of my favorite Minho fanfics

» For the sake of not spamming the authors, I won't tag them in my post anymore

» Hope you will enjoy and let me know if one of the links doesn't work *⁠.⁠✧

DRABBLES *⁠.⁠✧

[Untitled] ↴

[0.3k] — fluff, suggestive

Cotton Candy ↴

[0.3k] — fluff

Routine ↴

[0.5k] — fluff

Another year with you ↴

[0.5k] — fluff, established relationship

Ticklish ↴

[0.7k] — fluff

Mine ↴

[0.7k] — pre-established relationship, fluff

[Untitled 4] ↴

[0.8k] — fluff, comfort

Birthday boy ↴

[0.8k] — fluff

Kiss me (like you wanna be loved) ↴

[1.4k] — established relationship, fluff, suggestive

I miss you ↴

[2.5k] — smut, slight angst, fluff

ONESHOTS *⁠.⁠✧

Café cuddles ↴

[2k] — a lot of fluff

Conversations with Minho ↴

[2.3k] — fluff, hurt/comfort

Brother's best friend ↴

[2.4k] — smut

Kingdom come ↴

[3k] — slight angst, smut, prince!minho x maid!reader, royalty!au

A chance ↴

[3k] — slow burn, angst (if you squint), hurt/comfort, fluff

Black magic ↴

[3.3k] — warlock!minho, witch!reader, fluff

Bets and situations ↴

[3.4k] — rivals to lovers, street racing, smut

Homerun ↴

[3.8k] — fluff, friends to lovers au, high school au, sports au (baseball player minho!!)

Make a wish ↴

[3.9k] — smut, fluff, established relationship

Strawberries ↴

[4.3k] — tattoo artist au, fluff

Dirty Thoughts ↴

[4.7k] — smut, fluff, friends to lovers

Jealousy, jealousy ↴

[4.9k] — college au, coffee shop au, strangers to lovers

Of poison love and never agains ↴

[6k] — fluff, angst, royal au, enemies-to-lovers

Winner ↴

[6.6k] — fluff, slight angst

Language barrier ↴

[7k] — fluff, strangers to lovers

Cataclysm ↴ ♤

[7k] — friends to lovers, angst, fluff, smut

Spiderweb ↴ ♡

[7.4k] — smut, angst, roommates to lovers, brothers best friend!au

Glowing ↴

[8.2k] — best friend’s brother!minho, smut

Laundry ↴ ♡

[8.2k] — smut, established relationship, angst, fluff

Backstage ↴

[8.6k] — established relationship, mc!lee know, fluff, smut

TKO ↴

[9k] — boxer!au, neighbours!au, smut, tsundere/brat tamer!minho

Between the lines ↴

[9.7k] — retro!high school au, slow burn, slight enemies-to-lovers shenanigans

Green Flames ↴

[9.8k] — little angsty, slowburn, fluff, hogwarts au, frenemies to lovers

Cat and mouse ↴

[9.8k] — coworker! lee know x reader, slight angst, smut, fluff, enemies to lovers, office au

Lowkey ↴ ♤

[10k] — smut, angst, fluff, friends with benefits!au

You are my safe haven ↴

[10.5k] — fluff, angst, suggestive

And they were roommates ↴

[11k] — fluff, smut, roommates!au, bff2l!au

A/B/O ↴ ♡

[11.1k] — kinktober, smut

Ritual ↴

[11.3k] — soulmates!, historical!au, smut, angst, fluff

Kiss me more ↴ ♡

[13.2k] — fluff, smut, brother's best friend!au

Parties don't end at 3am by @lalal-99 ↴

[15.2k] — neighbours to lovers, smut, a little fluff

Destiny's Design ↴

[16.4k] — enemies to lovers, strangers to lovers, arranged marriage!au, royal!au

The enemies to lovers project ↴ ♡

[18k] — enemies to lovers, college au, slight angst, fluff

Conflict, conceal, confess ↴

[18.1k] — college au, enemies to lovers, smut

Invisible thread ↴

[20k] — university au, academic rivals to lovers, slow burn, fluff, angst

1LOVEU2! ↴ ♡

[20k+] — smut, dance partners!au, virgin!reader, fuckboy!minho, corruption!au

Pas de bourrée ↴

[24k] — enemies to lovers, ANGST, smut, dancer au

Lost in translation ↴ ♡

Otherworldly ↴ ♡

[26.5k] — smut, fluff, angst

I'm my mother's daughter ↴ ♤

[29k] — fluff, angst, smut

⇉ Sequel ♤

[34.6k] — smut, s2l, alien!au

Bunny ↴

⇉ Part 2

[12.7k] Two-shots — smut, angst, fluff, strangers to lovers, neighbours!au

Camping with wolves ↴ ♤ ♡

Part 2 ⇉Dog Unleashed

[22k] Two-shots — werewolf!minho x human!reader, fantasy au, smut, fluff, bit of angst, friends to lovers

When the rain stops ↴

Part 2 ⇉ Where the storm looms

[22.8k] Two-shots — smut, angst, fluff

SERIES *⁠.⁠✧

Nightmare ↴

[21.8k+] [Completed] — fake dating!au, college!au, roommates!au, best-friends to lovers!au, angst, fluff, smut

The experience project ↴

[47k+] [Completed] — enemies to lovers, college au, smut, angst, fluff

Consort ↴ ♡

[6/?] [59.3k] [On going] — enemies to lovers, historical au, arranged marriage!au, smut, slow burn

Sea may rise, sky may fall ↴

[11/11] [108k] [Completed] — smut, angst, pirate!au, feat. Jisung

New fanfics ♤

Personal favorites ♡

Last updated : 11/02/2025

[sweatandwoe]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. (You can make your own post or reblog this one!) I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!

Fuck u Zky (affectionately/lovingly)

Here's the problem, most of my WiPs are untitled documents so some are gonna be missing here but here we go:

Discord Marcus/Silco

Timeless, The Winking Skull (Reader/Silco)

Lap (Marcus/Silco)

Feral In Love (Reader/Werewolf!Silco)

Business Argument (Zaundad)

Unwrapped (Zaundad)

Si 21 REAL (Reader/Silco)

Yeehaw Viktor Chapter 1 (Reader/Viktor)

That Virgin reader fic Part2&3 (Reader/Silco)

Falling Feathers (Reader/Harpy!Silco)

Silco's Rattata (Gen)

There's probably more, but like

Vampires Stay Cool (Reader/Vampire!Silco)

Visor (Reader/Garrus Vakarian)

not gonna tag, but do if you'd like <3

[starker-stories]

The Cold, Chapter 1 - The Messages Series

This chapter on AO3

By @thestarkerisobvious​ and @starker-stories​​

New chapters in the series post every Thursday.

All links are to AO3. You don’t need to be a creator to have an AO3 account. You can have one solely as a reader. But to read anything at all in this series, you can just be an anonymous reader and/or commenter.

The best way to keep up with The Cold is to subscribe to the story on AO3. And the best way to keep up with the Messages Series is also to subscribe. Click on the ‘subscribe’ button on each of the above links.

Tags: Tony Stark Feels, Peter Parker Feels, College Student Peter Parker, Established Relationship, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Tony Stark Still Has Arc Reactor, Arc Reactor Kink, Peter Parker is a Mess, Spider-Man powers, Communication, They Finally Communicate!, And Fuck Of Course Look at Who It's Written By Of Course They Fuck, Avengers Compound

The entire Messages Series.  All links are to AO3.

Messages Unsent  (complete & posted)

Nothing More Than A Machine  (complete & posted)

Tomorrow  (complete & posted)

My Virgin (Revisited)  (completely & posted)

The Cold  (completely written) posts every Thursday  

Untitled Book 6  ( in progress )

Untitled Book 7  ( in progress )

Chapter 1:  Too Many Comic Books

Peter insisted. They were going to spend the weekend at Avengers HQ. Peter suggested they stay somewhere nearby, a hotel or a B&B, but Tony insisted right back. If they had to spend the weekend at the compound, he had a perfectly good suite of rooms there. The suite, like the entire damn place, was paid for by him. If he and Peter had to be there, they — as in THEY, a couple — would be using Tony’s rooms there.

“What was it like at the compound, right after it was built?” Peter asked playfully, laying his head on Tony’s shoulder. He was still in the afterglow of the quicky they had on the kitchen countertop and still felt like snuggling. “Did you all room there with Thor? Was it like one long slumber party?”

Tony arched an eyebrow. “Too many comic books, kid.”

“Hey, there’s internet rumors too,” Peter giggled. “Simpson’s references. Was it just like the Teen Titans tower? Did you have breakfast together? Movie night?”

“Whoa, whoa, slow down. Yeah, no. Nothing like that. First, I hated having the tower rebranded and taken over. Not my decision. I just paid for everything. Someone else,” he said pointedly, “called the shots. Cap, Fury, Hill, anyone else but me.”

“No popcorn fights? All those superheroes together snuggled on the couch watching old movies that Cap would recognize?” Peter teased gently, rubbing his hand soothingly across Tony’s chest.

“Are you fuckin’ kidding me? Yeah, I’d put in a screening room. You’ve been there.”

“You DID! You DID have movie night!”

“There were movies shown,” Tony admitted with a little side-nod.

“The internet was right for once! Did you play spin the bottle? Ten minutes in heaven?”

“What the actual FUCK?” Both eyebrows headed for the sky. “No. No way.” Tony shook his head. “What a fuckin’ nightmare that would’ve been. There were parties. Sure. They always ended so well. Murderbots showing up at the last minute. Gotta schedule that into the next event. But those ‘revels’? Very well planned — and rare — events. Post battle. The few times all six of us were there. Thor living in another entire realm from us, y’know.”

“Damn, I wanted it to be one long slumber party involving Thor,” Peter whispered, snuggling in.

“Excuse me? You got a thing for big hunks of muscle I should know about?” Tony teased.

“No, I thought it would be a fusion of Asgardian mead-hall and American sleepover. Ale served in tankards in the pillow fort,” Peter grinned and reached up to stroke Tony’s beard. He was glad there was no pilot. Hopefully he’d be able to let go of his lover before their journey upstate was over.

“Holy shit.” Tony laughed. “What the hell? The world has some very weird notions.” Tony sighed. “It was tense. The year we all lived in ‘Avengers Tower’. It wasn’t even technically a year. I mean, the tower was called that for a year. Rogers moved back to Brooklyn first. No, it was Clint who ‘disappeared’ on us first. We didn’t know he had a family. Then Rogers. Nat, she was off doing SHIELD things most of the time.” Tony’s voice turned a little sad talking about her. “But she kept her floor probably the longest. Longer than Bruce, even. He and I worked well together, but the stress… he couldn’t handle big-city living. Me? I kept to myself. Tense wasn’t even a word for it when I didn’t. Bruce and I, we… I guess you’d say we came closest to ‘hanging out’.”

“In the lab? That’s what I thought, I thought it would have been cool. But not in the labs at the compound?”

“Once I managed to evict the fuckin’ lot of them out of the tower after Berlin, well, there were fewer of us then, weren’t there? Bruce was gone on his adventure with the Grandmaster. Nat… she…” Tony sighed. “That didn’t work. SHIELD was gone, so Fury and his gang weren’t a problem. At the compound? It was me and Rhodey. Rhodey doing rehab. Me working on developing better braces for his legs.”

Peter wanted to hear stories though. That fit the comic books and the happy image that Tony’s PR department worked to project of the Avengers, to keep the backlash down after the Battle of New York. As many had been calling for their heads for the collateral damage as were hailing them heroes for saving the world from the aliens. Like everything else in Tony’s life at the time, Stark Industries’ resources were requisitioned for the Avengers. ‘The OG6 who saved the world’. Of whom, he was the last remaining member. He didn’t count Professor Hulk, since he wasn’t really Bruce Banner anymore, and Thor was off with Quill and company.

So Tony spun Peter the fantasies he wanted to hear. Each one, more painful than the last. He missed Nat. He missed her the most after she’d helped Cap and Barnes’ escape. Even though she accused him of causing all the trouble. Attacked him while he was waiting for Rhodey to come out of surgery. They hardly had time to heal the wounds before she was gone. When they’d had the opportunity, he was off playing Farmer John with Pepper. Nat was running the compound. With Steve. So he never visited until he came back to solve Lang’s time travel problem. But yeah. It was movie nights and family dinners with the Maximoff girl who dropped a garage full of cars on his ass and damn near crushed him through his armor. Yep. Popcorn, movies, revels.

“I’ve heard these stories,” Peter said gently, tracing patterns on Tony’s sleeve even as he watched Tony’s jaw tense as the tales unfolded. “These are the ones you could read in Time. But those are the PR-approved stories, the ones your department wrote.” Normally he wouldn’t ask Tony these kinds of questions, especially when Tony started making that ‘sniffing’ face. Especially when Tony started shielding his body with his left arm. But Peter had promised to stop avoiding the difficult questions like he had before, so he did ask. “Are those PR stories?”

Tony sighed. “Yeah. Sorry. Slipped right back into that, didn’t I?” His laugh was bitter. “Pete, I don’t know how it was for the others. For me? It was a little slice of hell. Rogers didn’t suddenly develop his self-righteousness when he took off to find his boyfriend. His meetings never failed to point out what my character defects were. My ‘ego’. My ‘lording it’ over everyone that I was the one paying for everything, working my ass off in marathon binge sessions to make sure everyone’s kit was state-of-the-art. Getting reamed out if someone did get a shot through the armor, like when Clint took that bullet graze. My fault,” he said, gesturing to himself. “The rest followed Rogers’ lead in his attitude, same as on the battlefield. Why did I feel close to Nat? She just sat there and kept her mouth shut. Bruce too. He tried defending me a couple of times. He saw how hard I was working. But… confrontation? Not good for Mr. Green.” Tony turned away and looked out the window, watching the ground slide by. “The armor? Gained a lot of new layers during those years.”

Peter massaged Tony’s bicep and gazed out the window with him.

“The post-Berlin compound was kind of a relief,” Tony continued. “Lonely, in the way that when you get used to something, even something bad, you miss it. But peaceful. Now? Not so peaceful anymore. There’s New-Cap, who was Old-Cap’s best friend and learned all about me from him, The inherited boyfriend who killed my mom. And the witch lady who hates me because one of my missiles blew up her home. That’s what’s waiting for me down there. Oh, and Fury trying to rebuild SHIELD.”

“Are the training fields you designed still being used?”

“Cap did most of the design on those. He was the one with boot camp experience. I just provided the land and a bit of technical support. But the fields are still there and they’ll be used again, once Fury’s got his recruits. Not yet though. The building projects, the fields, everything but the main building got abandoned after the snap. It’s kept up, not gone to seed, but empty, unfinished.”

“What about the labs at the compound, where you first developed the nanotech?”

“Those stayed.” Tony was proud of one thing he’d done to the compound. “When the compound was first built, with SHIELD’s needs as well as the Avengers’, the labs were relegated to the basement, an afterthought. I built a new building that replicated everything I had at Stark Tower before it got the big A on the side of it.”

He shook his head and huffed a little laugh. “I guess I do have the ego Cap accused me of. It’s probably ridiculous how much what they did to the tower bothered me. That damn A. SHIELD and the Avengers took over what I built. I had to buy another building for Stark Industries. The offices were requisitioned. My labs there became communal property and I couldn’t work in peace or work on anything for Stark without risking industrial espionage.

“But at least they left me my home, didn’t kick me out to use the penthouse for Fury or change it to an administration space. The two levels we live on and the one small lab level where we mess around, those I got to keep. Those I locked them the fuck out of. No one came up to our house without my permission. Which, of course, Cap tore me apart over.

“They changed the design I’d had worked so hard on with the architects. God, I hated the way they took the smooth curve of the top of the tower and put that big clunky angular box jutting out, breaking that line. The way it curved? Man, weeks were spent getting that mathematically correct while maintaining the aesthetics of it. The minute I dropped you off at May’s after Berlin, I was on the phone to my architect and the builders to fix that abomination stuck onto my building. Then I kicked everyone remaining out to the compound, not that there were a lot of people left.

“I actually had more peace and quiet at the compound labs during the ‘A’ phase than I had at home. That’s why there was duplication in the new building. I didn’t want the lot of them messing with the electron microscope. I kinda just hid it at the labs upstate behind a big ‘do not enter’ sign. I needed it to develop the nanotech. That I definitely wasn’t going to share with the Avengers. I built the Mark 50 at the compound’s labs and no one poked their nose into what I was doing or demanded that it be ‘for the team’.

“Then my world fell apart,” Tony said, giving Peter’s very solid, not dust, hand a squeeze. “I let the compound’s labs be abandoned and the whole place was taken over by Nat and Steve.

“Oh! I did do one thing there after that. I said there hadn’t been any work done on the fields, but I was wrong. They were completely torn up for a while. I built the tunnel for a much larger prismatic accelerator. It runs underneath them, with the beam emerging in the sub-basement of the lab. That way I didn’t have to worry about replacing the core,” he said, tapping the arc reactor. “I could create enough to power the arc for twelve lifetimes.”

“That was my last project before I retired. The next, was solving Lang’s time travel problem up at the lake house and bringing it here.”

As Tony told Peter about his work at the compound’s labs, the unpleasantness of talking about the Avengers fell away. Talking tech to Peter was better than an entire pharmacy of antidepressants.

“But that accelerator? I made so many improvements scaling it up.” Tony grinned at Peter. “It is so cool to watch that beam of light… it’s much larger than the one in Malibu. When it hits the receptacle and it shifts and starts to glow? Yeah,” Tony said proudly.

“That’s what I work on when you’re at class — scaling up the arc under the tower. Been working on that since forever. When I’m ready for a prototype, I’ll need the accelerator again. I’ll teach you how to use it.”

Their tech talk excitement didn’t last, as Tony looked out the window and saw the buildings of the compound, small in the far distance. There was still the fact that Peter wanted to talk to Tony about something that could only be talked about at this emotionally complicated place. Even though no detail, not even a hint, was revealed, Tony knew it was going to be one of those ‘serious conversations’. ‘Serious conversations’ rarely ended well. Or at least their middles were… highly unpleasant, even if they somehow did manage to end… not horribly.

But Peter insisted that the conversation he needed to have had to happen upstate. Tony knew he shouldn’t feel that way — it was Peter, and Peter would never do that to him — but it felt like a trap.

He was trying to figure out how to keep the openness he wanted with Peter at all times, and keep the mask on with everyone else. He’d do it. He had to. Nothing was going to make him go back to the way things had been. If he needed to… he winced inwardly at the thought… protect himself, he’d beat a cowardly retreat to his room. Like a child. But he would stay open with Peter. He’d stay him and not his mask for the entire weekend.

Not doing a great job of it, Tony, he chided himself, noticing he’d fallen into silence again. But neither did Peter seem eager to talk anymore. The run-up to a ‘serious conversation’ wasn’t exactly conducive to a ‘casual conversation’.

[itsalwaysyou-jw]

A snippet from the beginning of my (untitled) WIP. This was the first portion I ever wrote for this passion project. I had been watching Jane the Virgin and eating Doritos that I couldn't lick off my fingers fast enough when this popped into my head fully-formed and I was ready to type.

Please let me know if you would like to be a beta reader once the first draft is complete.

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